Employee Engagement

Staff, faculty and students who are 35 and younger now make up about 36 percent of the Johns Hopkins Medicine family. I recently had the opportunity to learn more about millennial and Generation Z colleagues from Tina Wells, an inspiring and dynamic expert on marketing to young people. Wells started Buzz Marketing Group when she(...)

Over my career, I’ve been part of several great teams filled with amazing, bright people who helped hone my perspective while challenging me. The foundation for our success was always trust. I realize that this is so apparent that it almost needn’t be said. But it does. And that’s because the concept of trust in(...)

Leaders often talk about instilling a “sense of ownership” in the people they lead—a pride and stewardship of work that transcends the rote completion of projects. It makes sense. When you own a home, for example, things matter differently than when you’re renting. Is the heat that’s trapped in the roof going to one day(...)

Though the concept of “employee engagement” is sometimes dismissed by people who see it as empty corporate jargon, it can be so much more than that. With my team at Johns Hopkins, I make it about caring for and respecting my colleagues first. I focus on their unique contributions and talents, with the aim of(...)